In October, the Indians asked their Chief if the
coming winter was going to be cold or not.  Not
really
knowing the answer, the chief replied that the
winter
will be cold and that the members of the village
should collect wood to be prepared.

Being a good leader, he then went to a phone booth,
called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is
this winter to be cold?"

The man on the phone responded, "This winter is
indeed
going to be very cold."

So the Chief went back to encourage his people to
collect even more wood to be prepared.  A week later
he called the National Weather Service again, and
asked again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?"

"Yes," the man replied, "it's going to be a very
cold
winter."  The Chief went back to his people and
ordered them to go out and bring back every scrap of
wood they could find.

Two weeks later he called the National Weather
Service
again.  "Are you absolutely sure that this winter is
going to be very cold?"

"Absolutely" the man replies, "the Indians are
collecting wood like crazy!"

Lol! http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_bucktooth.gif

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Yup! That's how I would do it.
Cheezywan

Lotta truth there!

IIRC, was before the turn of the century, whalers were in Artic waters, Eskimos said it would be an early freeze and they best go.
Whalers disregard, lots of ships stuck in the ice.

I head this one a little differently. My dad was Pawnee. He used to say that you could tell when it was going to be a cold winter becuse the white men were bringing in a lot of wood.